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- Subject: yet another sendmail configuration
- Date: 8 May 85 13:18:12 GMT
- Date-Received: 4 May 85 08:33:49 GMT
- Lines: 69
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- Well, with all this recent discussion on sendmail, I guess its time to
- advertise my sendmail configuration "package" with which it is possible to
- make a configuration file without writing one sendmail rewrite rule!
-
- It has the following features:
-
- + Input addresses can be in any of the following forms:
-
- 822 style: @domain1,@domain2:user@domain3
- Percent style: user%domain3%domain2@domain1
- uucp style: domain1!domain2!domain3!user
-
- Mixed addresses are handled giving '@' & '%' precedence over '!'.
- (This is usually the best bet).
-
- + Domain information can be included in a table format, e.g.
-
- hwcs hwcs.uucp
- cstvax cstvax.ed.ac.uk
-
- This maps addresses such as jim@hwcs to jim@hwcs.uucp.
-
- There is a shell script which "compiles" this to sendmail rules
- and classes.
-
- + Routing information can be included in a table format, where the
- format is dependant on the mailer, e.g. the uucp mailer table
- has the following format:
- domain uucp route
-
- e.g.
- hwcs.uucp kcl-cs!hwcs!%s
- cstvax.ed.ac.uk ucl-cs!cstvax!%s
-
- The ethernet mailer has the format:
- domain host-to-forward-to
- e.g.
- bina.wisdom.bitnet bina
- deya.wisdom.bitnet wisdom
-
- Top level domain relaying can also be specified, e.g.
-
- csnet csnet-relay.arpa
- dec decwrl.arpa
-
- There is a shell script which "compiles" all this to sendmail rules
- and classes.
-
- It supports the following mailers: uucp, ethernet, janet, bitnet
-
-
- + It allows several hosts to be "hidden" from the outside as one
- site.
-
- + An improved rmail interface to sendmail (e.g. sets the sender macro)
- and an improved "damail" sendmail interface for the rscs bitnet software
-
- + Finally, it copes with Janet, where addresses are in little-ending
- form, and Received headers are replaced by Via headers.
- There are janet/sendmail interface programs available.
-
-